The 67-year-old Brighton Beach resident owned three-quarter houses that, on paper, were meant to get down-and-out tenants back on their feet.

When Baumblit wasn't pushing tenants out, he was pushing them into drug treatment programs.

Authorities said he forced tenants treatment, regardless of need, so he could pocket illegal kickbacks from Medicaid providers.

Baumblit and his wife pleaded guilty last month to the scam, which prosecutors said wrongly extracted $1.5 million.

The state attorney general's office handled the Medicaid fraud case, while Brooklyn prosecutors handled other charges against the crooked landlord.

Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said Baumblit "preyed on vulnerable people who desperately needed a home. He did that to line his own pockets and deserves to be in prison for his fraudulent and cruel actions."